Original Watercolours by Tim Wilmot

Latest YouTube Video - Boat scene on the River Tamar

Here's my latest YouTube video - The River Tamar in Plymouth, Devon and a number of small boats.  Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms

 

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Harbour walk, New Harbour, Chania, Crete

Chania, Crete, 15" x 11"

There were 2 main challenges with this scene - 1) getting the soft edges around the trees and soft shadows, and 2) the handling of the row of boats on the left, moored up against the harbour - all sorts of craft.  So 1) was all about timing and sequence - tree first, then background buildings, then the dark areas of the tree.  2) was handled almost as an abstract, just observing the shapes, and not thinking 'boats'.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

Latest Watercolour Demo - Talking about textural effects in Watercolour

Here's my latest video up on my YouTube Channel and this time covering different techniques to create texture of objects - a shiny surface, pebbles on a beach and so on.  Hope you like it and send me your comments please!

 

 

Workshop demo painting - Dartmouth Inner Harbour

Dartmouth, Devon, 15" x 11"

A demo painting from quite a while ago.  The Inner Harbour at Dartmouth in Devon, UK.  An exercise in laying down a wash (the water), some careful painting around the foreground boats, composition with the placing of the boats, values (as in the dark of the reflections around the lighter value of the tops of the boats and a nit of looseness (the far boats in the shadow of the buildings).

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

 

Bristol Savages Sketch Night - "Season of Mists"

Watercolour, 15" x 11"

So Wednesday Night Sketch Night at my Art Group, the Bristol Savages, and Chairman for the evening gave the topic "Season of Mists" after the well know Keats poem, "To Autumn".  So we have 2 hours to come up with a painting without use of reference material.  So from memory/imagination.  Well going on the mists theme (I don't do mists - I like sun!) I went with a theme based on Lynmouth Harbour at low tide and put the hills in the background into a very light and soft value.  But had to bring some sun in the foreground.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

 

Bristol Savages Sketch Night - High and Mighty

Watercolour, 15" x 11"

New season started at my Art Society - The Bristol Savages.  On a Wednesday night we are given a topic to paint in two hours.  No reference material is allowed so it has to be done from memory!  Subject for our last session was 'High and Mighty'.  Well I came up with a tall church tower.  Other artists came up with majestic tall trees, mountain ranges, tall sailing ships and even a vicar!

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press 300 gms.

 

Akti Kanari Chania Crete - Harbour Scene and reflections

Chania, Crete, 15" x 11"

I haven't done boats for a while in a harbour scene, full tide and the reflections being a key element, and I miss doing them.  Sadly in need of some more reference photos, I went back to some old ones from a previous holiday to Crete.  Here is the sort of view I love doing - a row of boats, something tall in the background to give some larger reflections and a gentle swell to create some waves and interest.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms

 

Porthleven Harbour at low tide and a view across to the Ship Inn 2

Porthleven Cornwall, 15" x 11"

Quite a loose one of a similar painting I did a while back, but as I sometimes do, go back to a previous subject and try a different approach.  So this was 1) looser and 2) include more boats in the harbour.  Bit of a muted palette which I think helps the scene - it could be one of those days when the Atlantic Mist is coming in.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms paper

 

Vernazza Harbourside Moorings

Vernazza, Italy, 15" x 11"

A simple sketch using the format of a shady foreground, a brightly lit background and some silhouetted figures on the harbour wall.  A suggestion of a row of boats moored up on the right with some simple reflections.  As I regularly do, I like to connect the different elements up in the picture - the shadows to people, the right hand figure to the boats and so on.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.

 

Fishing Boats, Vieux Port Marseille, France

Marseille, France, 15" x 11"

A view along the harbourside in Marseille with a fish market on the left and some small fishing craft moored up on the right.  Another exercise in simplifying what you see.  Reduce the background buildings to shapes, and just put in a few windows.  The market on the left has to be just suggested, or I think it would take the eye of the viewer away from the centre and the boats.

Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300gms